Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 25, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 October 1880 — Page 2

! . . "~ A The Ligonier Banner, ~ J. B. STOLL, Editor and Prop’r. - . LIGoNTER, : ¢ 0 IN DIIANA. -——7~~.‘———'—~—7-——-»——— e e et e e ettt e NEWS SUMRMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parte e - : et ik . : ‘ » Pomestie, | ¥ EARLY on the morning of the 30th ult. the boiler of the flouring mill owned by Henry Shaber at-St. Paul, Minn., exploded, totally . Wrecking the engine-liouse and killing the engineer, Jacob Rapp, a young man twenty- . four years of age. . ‘ Toe total population of the six New En- ~ gland States, as shown by the census, 134,014,808, being an increase of 528,966 in ten years. " Tup public-debt statement issued on the - Ist makes the following exhibit: Total debt (including interest of $18,906,396), $2,115,539,442. Cash in Treasury, $199 945,260. Debt, less amount in. Treasury, $1,915,5%4,182. Decrease.during September, “#8,974,891, Decrease since June 80, 1880, [ $26,578,112, e , :

. CommissioNeEr WILLIAMSON, of the General Land | Office, has issued his annual re- : port. ' There were surveyed during the year ending the 30th of June 15,609,253 acres of public lands; dnd 652,151 acres of lands claim- . ed by private parties. This isalarge increase over the quantity of land surveyed during any previous year. During ' the fiscal ‘year there were 850,740 acres of ' public land purchased, 6,045;570 acres entered under the Homestead law, 2,193,184 ‘obtained by settlers under the timber-culture . clause, and 88,522 acres obtained on military ‘bounty land warrants. There were 3,757,888 acres of swamp lands patented to the States, and 1,157,376 acres certified as for railroad purposes. The total amount of land surveyed - since the creation of the office is 752,557,195 - acres. The amount of public lands not yet surveyed 1s estimated at 1,062,231,727. . . A NEw Yorx telegram of the Ist says the “horse distemper was rapidly spreading in that city. ! -About one-third of the equines owned by the street-car and omnibus companies were already suffering, and it was believed - that nearly all of them would be down in'a few days. Travel was greatly impeded in consequence. ' . . ' . DuriNg the month of :September 26,149 European immigrants arrived at New York. The number for September, 1879, was 14,770. A Bon,Eß.explosion_ in the saw-mill of Pitts & Cranage at Bay City, Mich., on the Ist caused th?‘ Hgapll of the engineer and seriously injured| several other émployes. The accident is said to have been ‘the.result of gross carelessness. ! L - THE total coinage of the United States Mint during September was. $6,340,501, of which $2,301,000 was silver dollars. =~ ° UNITED STATES postal statistics show that at the expiration of the last fiscal year there were 104 free delivery oflices, employing 2,688 carriers, in operation. - The total number of pieces of mail handled at the .offices designated amounted to 932,121,843, an increase of 122,267,778 over the preceding year. ' .'Epwarp Powers, aged eighteen years, threw a ragged piece of glass at John Blanchard, at Manchester, N. H.,7 the other day, striking the latter in the neck, severing the jugular vein, and’ causing almost instant -death. . ! Trae New York Grand Jury on the 2d found indictments for grand larcény and receiving - stolen goods against Lawrence R. Jerome, Jr fnd_.his friends, Patechell -and McGibbon, “in connection4with the loss of a package of securities, valued at $87,500, by a Wall street firm of brokers, in July last. ! Brockway, the notorious forger, has been - sentenced at P!rovideuce,,R. 1..t0 eight y.edrs’ . imprisonment in the State-prison. - ¢ Toe Pan-Presbyterian Council, having ~ transacted all business brought before. it adjourned at Philadelphia on the 2d. : . Dr. GorrseN, of Philadelphia, who poisoni:d his young wife:in order to secure her property, has been convicted of murder in -the first degree. . ; - Rosingon, Lorp & Co., extensive dealers in wood and willow ware at No. 14 Chambers street, New York, have failed. e Tue Chicago Base-Ball Club has won the championship, the League season closing on the 80th ult. The record stands: Chicago, 67 games won; Providence, 52; Cleveland, 47; Troy, 41! Worcester, 40; Boston, 40; Buffalo, 25; Cinciunati, 21. » . A BoDY of armed men entered the town of Dalton, Georgia, on the night of the Ist, and - rescued a lot of contraband goods seized by _ the revenue officers. The Washington Department at once telegraphed the Collector ~ to use-all his force and authority to capture ~and punish the raiders. - '

Personal and Political.

ViNNIE REAM’s statue of Admiral Farragut was placed ! on’ the pedestal on JFarragut Square, Washington, on the 29th. ult., and veiled, towait the day of the public ceremony of unveiling. e TrE New Hampshire State Greenback Convention met at Manchester on the 29th ult., and placed in nomination a full State ticket, headed by Warren G. Brown for Governor. Tue following Congressional nominations were made on the 20th. ult.: First Illinois District, Richard Powers, Greenback; Third Arkansas, Thomas Boles, Republican; Sixteenth New York,. Alexander Gregory, Greenback; Twentieth Pennsylvania, A. G. Curtin, Democrat. e |

{ Tuae South Carolina Greenback State Convention met at Columbia on the 29th ult. and nominated a full State ticket, headed by L. W. R. Blair for Governor. s e i

At the request of Cardinal McCloskey, the Pope has appointed a Coadjutor Bishop of New York. The choice has fallen on Dr. Michael Corrigan, Bishop of Newark, N. J. Tue California Supreme Court has decided that no county or municipal officers are to be voted for at the election this fall. This undoes a great amount of county conyention work by the various. political parties. :

Tue Nébraska State Democratic Convention met at. Hastings én the 29th ult., and, after a two days’ session, nominated a full iticket, headed by Thomas Tipton for Goy‘ernor. Presidential Electors were also nominated. o . i : .

Tuae following: Congressional nominations werg announced on the 30th ult.: Fourth Wisconsin District, George Godfrey, Greenback;, Fourth South- Carolina, J. H. McLane, Greenback; Second Illinois, General John ¥. Farnsworth, Democrat; First New Hampshire, Dr. La Farelle, Greenback; Second New Hampshire, John F. Woodbury, Greenback; Third New Hampshire, Dudley. T, Chase, Greenback; Fourth Massachusetts, William Gaston, Democrat; Thirtieth New York, Congressman John Van Voorhis, Republican; Twentieth New York, Judge Hilton, Democrat; Thirteenth New York, Congressman John H. Ketcham; Republican; Thirty-Becond New - York, Myron P. Bush, Republican. . Lo -

TaE fellowing Congressional nominations were made on the Ist: Seventh Massachusetts District, Congressman William A. Russell, Republican: Fifth Massachusetts, J. N. Buffum, Greenback; Twenty-first New York, Francis R. Gilbert, Democrat. L ~ Jupee HiLToN has declined the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Twentioth New York District. , !

Tue daughter of (eneral Zachary Taylor recently received $16,000 at the Treasur}y Department in Washington. This is the bajance of salary wkich her father would have received had he Hved to complete his Presidential term. Miss Taylor has been in poor circumstances for someryears, and the bill autliorizing the payment of the money to her was passed during the last sesslon of Congress. o 3 | " Tre Chairman of the National Republican Committee has issued a circular to Virginia Republicans advising them to form no alliance with either faction of the Democratic party tn that State, and to give their undivided support to the Republican Electoral ticket. e : .

GENERAL SHERMAN has telegraphed to Washington that President Hayes and his party will not return to the White House till the 7th of November. . ' j,

TuE ceremony of unveiling the statue of Robert . Burns took place 'in Central Park, New York, on the afternoon of the 24. George William Curtis delivered the oration. The musie consisted of Scottish airs, and the ceremonies were . appropriately ended by the whole comipany ginging . ¢ Auld Lang Syne.”

JUuDGE ANDREW McCLAIN has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Sixth Temnnessee District, and Colonel Thomas H. Herndon by the Democrats of the First Alabama District. - , L

ACCORDING t 0 the Richmond Dispatch, the official census returns of Virginia give that State 4 population of 1,509,335, being an increase over the population in 1870 of 284,172, or about 23 per cent. '

Foreign.

A CaxpaHAß dispatch, received’ on the 30th ult., reports a gathiering of the friends of the deposed Yakoob Khan at Farrah, at which it was agreed to organize attacks upon the British until Yakoob was proclaimed Ameer azain.: - o ! GARIBALDI ‘and his son’ Menotti have resigned as members of the Italian Parliament, and rumors were rife on the 30th ult. that they were connected with. revolutionary movements. : . : Tue Government of the Mexlcan Province of Chihuahua has offered a reward of $2,500 for the scalp of Victoria, the Apache Chief. - Tie Melbourne (Australia) Exposition was formally opened on the Ist. L THE British Governmént has issued a proelamation offering a reward of $£5,000 forsthe discovery of the murderers of Lord Mountmorris. . |

It is reported that France has informed England that she will not participate in any further acts of coércion towards Turkey whict England may contemplate, : - THERE were sixteen :deaths from yellowfever and ten deaths from small-pox at Havana during the week ended September 24. Among the victims of yellow-fever was Luis Marenco, Chief of Btaff to the Governor of Cuba. &£ .

. THE Spanish Government has resolved to proceed against all priests who introduce politics into their sermons, and to dismiss all Mayors who are notorious Carlists. , A Dusrix dispatch of the 3d announces the murder of Ryan Foley, a farmer living in. County Sligo, and one Boylan, a processserver at Cross Maglin. ! -

A RECEPTZION was given .to Mr. Parnell at Cork, Ireland, on the 3d, in which 30,000 persons participated. o : Rev. Dr. CLEARY, Parish priest of Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland, has been appointed Bishop of Kingston, Canada:

A majomriTY of the evening newspapers published in Vienna on the 2d were confiscateil for publishing the manifesto of the Constitutional party. e :

THE editors of the St. Petersburg newspapers have been warned that they will not be allowed to discuss the question of a Constitution for Russia during the reign of the present Czar. o . ' <

LATER NEWS, =@

MR. RussELL, a member of the Ute Commission, arrived at Washington on the 4th, with the treaty papers signed by 577 of the Indjans. Arrangements were being ‘made for the payment to the Utes of the $75,000 required by the treaty. The work of surveying_the‘ new reservation will take some time, and it is the purpose of the Government not to remove the Indians until ‘next Spring,. e

It was stated on the 4th that 6,000 horses were down with the epizootic in New York and 2,000 in Brooklyn and Jersey City. In Philadelphia five per cent, of the horses were affected. = | .

. Davio Doverass & Co., a well-known Neyw York linen importing firm, have lately failed. OxEgperson was killed and twenty injured at Manchester, Eng., the other day, by the giving way of a gallery in a Catholic church, TuirTY feet of masonry and an. immense mass of rock fell in the St. Gothard Tunnel on the 4th. .Four men were killed and many wounded. " . e

- Ar Milwaukee a few days ago seven persons were poisoned by eating wild parsnips for dinner. Physicians. Wefe called in as soon as the first symptoms of the poisoning became'manifést, and all but two of the victims weresoon pronounced out of danger. The parsnips were bought of the family grocer. - Two BrOTHERS named Fahey had a quatrre! near Ricimond Hijll, Ont., the other day. The elder struck the younger brother on the forehead, inflicting a wound which would probably prove fatal. Tnsir father, on' learning this, fell dead. e THE aggregate cost of the United States postal service during the yeéar ended Jwne 30 last was $22,206,260. e

TREASURY officials at Washington estimate the amount of foreign gold that arrived in this country from dJuly 1 ‘up to October 4 at §35,000,000. . | . Oveß 12,000,000 bushels of grain were shipped to Europe from New York during the month of SBeptember. =

TaE Connecticut Town elections were held on the 4th. Returns received up to midnight were said to show Republican gains. The Constitutional amendment giving the appointment of Judges to the Governor was carried by a large majority. ~ Tae difficulty with the Republicans of the Sixteenth New York District has been settled by the withdrawal of both Républi¢an candidates for Congress and the nomination of Dr, 8. 0. Vanderpool.. The Greenbackers of the Fourteenth New York District have nominated A. J. Clements for Congress. PLEURO-PNEUMONIA prevails toan alarming extent among the swine in Lancashire, England. i -

ToE United States Grand Jury at Atlanta has found true bills ‘against thirty-eight Georgia moonshiners, who had made attacks on the United Statesrevenue officers. Twenty of them were indicted for participation in the burning of Revenue-Collector Stewart’s property and for firing upon his family. ~

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

AX Indianapolis chap, the other day, locked a pair of hand-cuffs- upon his wrist, at the county jail, “just for the fun of the thing,” and after hunting about an hour for a key had to eall in the services of a blacksmith to release him. , .

THE colored |population-of Logansport is greatly excited over a little affair in which a minister took a most unenviable part. The divine’s name is Rev. George Lee¢, and.the present is the only known instance wherein he so far forgot himself as to act in' a manner scandalizing to his church and his own name. It appears that a day or two since Rev. Lee called upon one of the trustees of his church, Charles Brice, at the latter’s place of employment, and, whetber soliciting for a contribution or censuring for some violation of church rules, the two get into a war of words, and the. colored divine, losing entire control of his passibu's, began to pummel the unsuspecting member of his flock in a highly artistic way. Mr. Brice’s respect for his minister prevented him from making much resistance, and had it not ‘been for the interference of another colored brother it can not be g}lessed how seriously the affair might have ended. After coming to a realization of the disgrace he had brought upon himself by ‘“allowing a preacher to lick:him,” Brice went before an esquire and had the minister arrested for committing an assault. The case came up the other evening, and tupon being asked as to whether he was guilty or not Lee said: “1 am guilt,y,/éyourv honor.”” Thereupon * his honor’’ announced the fine and costs at $7.81, and this the divine immediately forked over and departed. o ¢

- THE market run by Eckert, in Fort Wayne, was damaged by fire a few mornings ago to the extent of $3,000. ' ' e GEORGE CAPITA, a second-hand furniture dealer in Indianapolis, dropped dead of heart disease in his store a few days since. Five minutes 'beiore the attack he was apparently well. ! ]

PRELIMINARY surveys for a ship canal from Toledo to Fort Wayne are now beipg' made by virtue of a Congressional appropriatioh. - CHARLES W. EastHAM, City Clerk of Vincennes, has . disappeared. .The shortage:in his books is declared by an expert to be about $1,500. o

.GEORGE NOERR’s' little girl was fatally kicked by a horse at Indianapolis a few days a2O. : - . . e

Tue decomposed body of Jacob Becker was found in the woods near Indianapolis a few - days since. He wds of unsound mind and is ! supposed to have died of starvation. - ;t Miss ANNIE CHAPLIN, daughter of-a depositor in the First National Bank at Warsaw, presented a check for $3OO at the bank, the other day, and got the money. Her father ’ soon discovered that it wasaforgery, and had | her and her lover, a sewing-machine agent -named Smith, arrested, refusing afterward to | bail her out. Smith - secured bail. Many friends of the family endeavored to persuade Chaplin to reléase -his: daughter, but he re- . fused, stating that'she would then elope. On the 28th Smith” called at the jail to see the girl, and they passed out into the yard for a - promenade. In a little while four pistol shots were head, and, running to the place whence the reports seemed to come, the jailer found the girl and Smith dead, their bodies lying side by side. "He had shot her and then himseif. o . :

~J. T. Dorsty, residing near Bradford, White County, sold a squash in Lafayette the other day which weighed 188 pounds. A FARMER near Greensburg found one of his hogs, the other day, atter mearly forty days’ imprisonment under a haystack, and the hog was very glad to return to his trough. A FEW mornings ago . Alvin E. Barney, one of the trusty inmates of the Insane Asylum at Indianapolis, entéred the engine-room of the institution in the absence of the engineer, and by some means got caught in the belt passing over the driving-wheel, which crushed the bones .of his head and neck, causing death instantly. -

MorLiE CARPENTER, a 4 colored girl living at New Albany, was bitten by a dog about a year ago, and is now suffering from hydrophobia, . = ; : J. H. Myers’ hardware store at Ambia was burned to the ground a few nights ago. Loss, $2,500. ° . Mgs. ALBERT MUHLEISEN was thrown from a carriage at mefqrdsvflle a few days since and fatally injured. : .

A MaN named John Hicks, eighty years of age, has just been received at the Jeffersonville Penitentiary, on a two years’ sentence. He has passed over fifty years of his long life in prison. - - . - - THIEVES entered the residence of John Rousch, in Logansport, a few nights ago and got awdy with notes calling for $4,080. :

DoverAs WiLLIAMS, said to be a nephew of the Governor, was killed by a railroad man named Ed Hogan at Vincennes a few nights ago. s v e ‘

THERE is. considerable local excitement at Evansville because of the purchase by Josiah Locke, of Indianapolis, of about $lOO,OOO worth of property delinquent for taxes, which had been offéred for sale last February, and which was not bought by local capitalists because they did not wish to profit by their neighbors’ impecuniosity. The persons af. fected are ciubbing together and propose to test the Constitutionality' of the law which allows tax-buyers to impose. the twenty-five per cent. penalty. = . : . A WAREHOUSE in Logansport gave way the other day and let down into the.street 12,000 bushels of fiax-seed which was stored there, AXNNIE BRANDENBURG was caucht betweer two cars at Fort Wayne a few days since, and so badly crushed that she died shortly afterward. : e ;

At Fort Wayne the other day Louis Bowrie, Jr., twenty years old, threw a stone which accidentally struck a nine-year-old son of Henry Gerke in the pit of the stomach, inflicting injuries -from which he died twentyfour hours after.

MorToN ‘PRITCHELL, fourteen years old, and Sarah D. Fauster, thirteen yearsold, were recently married at Marion, in Grant Couiity. It was an elopement. Gl

Tae Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, 93%/@9314c; Corn. 39@ 40c; Oats, 30@31c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, 96@95c; Corn, 43@ 44c; Oats, 82@33c; Rye, 89@90c; Barley, 90@91e. , . e

REvV. MRr. GENUFLUX fell down stairk last Sunday morning, with a iower-vase in one hand; a pitcher of water in the other, a lamp globe under his arm and a china saucer tucked in his coat pocket. He was trying to carry all these things down stairs and he succeeded. But when he got them to the bottom and his anxious wife screamed from the head of the stairs to know if he had broken anything, he took an account of stock and calmly reported that ¢he had broken everything bhut the Sabbath.”” ¢ 'The only thing,” petulantly commniented his careful and economical wife, ‘‘that we could afford to break.”’ —Burlington Howkeye. o ,

MISCELLANEOUS.

—Next year will be the fourth centenary of the printing of the first book in Vienna, and the event is to be duly commemorated. oo ’ —A recent thunderstorm in the Sheffield district of England did ,glz;rea_t damage al Wentworth Park, belonging to Earl Fitzwilliam, where six stags and three buffaloes were killed by lightning

—-A circus was at Lancaster, Ky., and during an Indian scene, when many pistols were discharged, a young man arose in his seat and shot a policeman dead. There appears to have been no cause for the deed except excitement. “—Anotherrelic of the Spanish Armada has been secured at Slains, in Scotland. It is a large gun raised up out of the place where one of the ships belonging to the Armada <was wrecked, and, though it has been in that place 290 years, it is as good as ever. i

~—The oldest living brewer in this country, in point of active business life, is Frederick Lauer, of Reading, Pa. He. has been engaged® in brewing for fiftyfour years and was one of the first to introduce lager beer into the country, beginning to make it in 1844, —Trade unions appear now to have taken root in Japan. Itis reported that owing to the recent rise in the price of rice all the laborers in Gifu, Mino Province, made an arrangement among themselves and forced their employers to raise the wages. = .

—Wyoming Territory has been gaining in population at a great rate since 1870.. When the last census was taken it had only a little more than 9,000 inhabitants, while now it has 22,000. The gain has been at the rate of 138 per cent. How new it was in 1870 is shown by the fact thas out of the 9,000 inhabitants only 300 were natives of the Territory. -

—A young lady of Worcester, Mass., packed her trunk and went to Mount Dessert. On opening her trunk she discovered the pet cat from home nicely stowed away among her clothing. The animal was alive and well, and although packed in the trunk from the férenoon of one day to the afternoon of the next appeared none the worse for the journey. —ltis believed that the veil presented by Brussels to the Princess Stephanie is the largest ever made. Itis 128 by 118 inches; 125 workmen -made it in three months, and it cost $5,000. In the middle are the arms of AustroHungary, flanked by the arms of the city of Brussels. The border will represent the arms of the nine provinces of Belgium, those of Austria and of Belgium, all connected by a wreath of flowers. . -

—A plucky woman in Pittsfield, Mass., scared; a robber resently. He had promiged to cure her of neuralgia if -she would layv a roll of greenbacks on the kitchen table. She put the money on the table as he requested. He then asked for pen, ink and paper, and when she went up stairs to fetch them he departed with the money. In a moment she was behind him with a revolver at his ear and she kept it there nntil he had gone back into the kitchen, put down the money and begged for mercy. —Workingmen’s societies in England grow to enormous proportions, possibly because, in addition to their trades union features, they take the place of the mutual aid and benevolent associations so common in this country. Four of the %reat English societies —the Engineers, Iron Founders, Boiler Makers, and Steam Engine Makers—have nearly eighty thousand members, with incomes amounting to over one million dollars 2 year. They paid out in 1879 more than twice asimuch, chiefly for the benefit of members who were sick or out of work. A million dollars was spent on the unemployed, mostly in form of donations, but a large amount for traveling expenses. A quarter of a million was awarded to men on strike, but this was only ‘one-eighth of the whole amount distributed, the societies not encouraging struggles with employers, except in rare cases. 'The administration .of the aflairs of these and of co-operative societies .in England is remarkable for economy and -honesty, vast corporations being managed for workingmen for years with quite as much success as attends the business ventures of merchants and bankers supposed to be specially qualified for such undertakings. - .

Prince Napoleon’s Boot Maker.

- A diverting story; humorously illustrative of Prince Jerome Bonaparte’s proverbial thriftiness, has recently gone the round of the Parisian newspapers. It appears that during the latter part 6f his cousin’s reign the Prince became dissatisfied with his boot-maker and formally withdrew his custom from that artist, who continued nevertheless, to ornament the front of his shop with the attractive inscription, ‘‘Purveyor to His Imperial Highness, the Prince Napoleon.” , Noticing this delusive announcement one day, as he drove past his shop, Prince Jerome sent a member of his household to the boot-maker with positive orders that the inscription should be forthwith removed. As, however, he subsequently found that his commands had been disregarded, he ‘took legal proceedings against the bootmaker for unlawful and mendacious advertisement of his (the Prince’s) patronage. The defendant’s counsel, in the course of his pleadings. endeavored in the following ingenious manner to show cause why his client should not be compelled to withdraw. the offending ‘inseription, ' arguing that such a decision on the part of the court would infallibly result in serious prejudice and loss to the boot-maker. <““For,” he observed, ‘‘ hitherto. passers-by whose attention was attracted by the announcement in 'question stopped, entered the shop and bought boots freely of my client. And ‘why did they so? Because they had already said to themselves, ¢Prince Napoleon’s boot-maker! That must be a good workman, and an nncommonl cheap one into the bargain. ‘We Wifl give him a trial.” If you force him to remove his inseription the peripatetic public will certainly infer that he must have raised ‘his prices and will hurry past his shop with averted eyes.” The boot-maker, it need scarcely be added, lost the suit, but one cannot gelp’regret—fing that so humorous a plea should have been disallowed by a French tribunal.—London Telegraph. - |

Law for Practical Jokers.

The law holds practical jokers criminally, and sometimes civilly, responsible for. the fatal effects of| their ;{)a.yful prg,nlis, . o { ~

~ In Daingerfield against _Thomgson, a civil action of damages, decided recently by the Court of Appeals of Virginia, the defendant was the keeper of a restaurant, and gbout 11 p. m., after ‘he had closed for the night, hearing a noise outside, was on the point of opening the door, when he was shot through the right foot with a pistol ball which had pehetrated the door from the outside. It appeared that several persons being on the street waiting for the plaintiff to let thiem in, the defendant said toone of them who, had a pistol, ¢ Let us give him asalute.”. To which the latter, one Harrison, replied, « I'll do it,”” and immediately fired.. ¢ The willful firing of a pistol in the street of a city, - whether maliciously or not,” said Christian, J., *¢ is of itself an unlawful act, and.the ' consequences of such wunlawful act: must be visited upon those who commit it or instigate it." . As the plaintiff got a verdict for $B,OOO, this was better than a criminal prosecution. But the same practical joke would have ‘been criminal.

In Fenton's case, where the prisoners ‘ in sport, threw heavy stones into a mine, breaking a scaffold, which fell against and upset a corf, in which a miner was descending into the mine, whereby he was killed, they were held guilty of manslaughter. 'Tfie prisoners were sentenced to three months imprisonment. In the King against Powell, a lad, as a frolic, without any intent to harm anyone, took the trap stick out of the front part of a cart, in consequence of which it was upset, and the carman, who was in it, loading it was pitched backward on the stones and killed. Held, manslau%‘,hter. ' The prisoner was fined one shilling and discharged. In Ewington’s case the prisoners covered and surrounded a drunken man with straw and threw a shovel of hot cinders upon him, whereby he was burned to death. Paterson, J., charged that “if they believed the prisoners’ really intended to do any serious jnjury to the deceased, though not to kill him, it was murder; but if they believed their intention to have been only to frighten him in sport, it was manslaughter.’ Verdict, manslaughter. In State against Roane the defendant' carelessly discharged a gun, intending only to frighten a supposed trespasser, really the servant of the prisoner, but ‘killing him. Held, manslaughter. In the King against Martin the pris-’ oner ordered a quartern of §in to-drink, . and asked a child present if he would have a drop, at the same time putting the glass to the child’s mouth, whereupon the child snatched the glass and drank the whole contents, which caused his death. Vaughan, 8., said, ‘¢ as this was. the act of the child, there must be an acquittal, but if it had appeared that the prisoner had willingly given a child of this tender age a quartern of gin, out of a sort of brutal fun, and had thereby caused its death, 1 should most decidedly have held that to be manslaughter. . : In the King against Conrahy, the prisoner and the deceased had been piling turf together, and the former, in sport, threw a piece of turf at the latter, hitting and killing him. Held, nocrime. G o

In the King against Waters, there was testimony that the prisoner, in the course of rough and drunken joking, pushed a boat with his foot, whereby the deceased fell overboard and was drowned. There was also. testimony that the push was given by another person. ' Park, J., said, *“if the case had rested on the evidence of the first witness it would not have amounted to manslaughter,” and there must be .an acquittal. . . '

| In State against Hardie the defendant was held guilty of manslaughter for killing a woman in an attempt to frighten her with a pistol which he supposed to .be unloaded. The Court said: <lf it had been in fact unloaded no homicide would have resulted, but the defendant ~would hlave been justly censurable for a most reckless and imprudent act in frightening a ‘woman by preterrding that it was loaded and that he was about to discharge it at her. Such conduct is grossly reckless and reprehensible ‘and without palliation or excuse. Human life is not to be sported with by‘the use of firearms, even though the person using them may have good reason to believe that the weapon used is not loaded or that being loaded it will do no injury. When persons en- - gage in such reckless sport they should be held liable for the consequences of ‘their acts.”—Albany Law Journal.

Prehistoric Mexico.

Veryinteresting discoveries have been made by M. Desire Charnay in ancient cemeteries high up on the slopes of the volcanoes Popocatapetl and® Itztaceihutal. The burial place on the latter mountain is high above the:line of vegetation, Just below it is a small*valley almost concealed on three sides by a natural bulwark of stupendous rocks. Access to this singular dell seemed at first impossible, in fact was so difficult as to lead M. Charnay to doubt the tradition of a Chichimecan village having existed in such a place. Excavations have led to the supposition that this narrow valley had been a temporary refuge of the Toltecs, perhaps as early as the year 600. It bore evidence too of having been inhabited by the Chichimeca Indians. Idols and household utensils similar to those found in ruined Chichimec¢an villages were dug up from a depth of from three to four feet. Singularly, too, there were found near the surface Aztec relics, which proved that at a comparatively recenf date this natural stronghold had served as a place of concealment for a third tribe. "Tradition says that after the Spanish- conuest in 1520 a few spirited ‘Aztecs and ?[‘la,telblcos, rather than submit to slavery or accept the doctrines of the invaders, fled with their ¢‘lares and penates”’ to this mountain fastness and subsisted on corn, frijoles and other vegetables, burying their dead as near the ¢ snow line’ as possible. Many Aztec idols, vases and jars were unearthed there.—Scientific American. -

—The trouble with the sick man of Europe appears to be that he has too many doctors. . ] o

PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

—The trout is often ** caught on the fly.”—Boston Commercial I%u?l@tin. -

- —An onion, like a laborer, works best with his coat-off.——New York People.

. —There is a man in Aurora so thin that he had a row of buttons put on his wmbrella cover and wears it for an ulster.—Hawk-Eye. - = = 0 —A gang of. commercial travelers, just arrived, call themselyes the drum corps. - They beat the world. —Steubenville Herald. - E '—A boy will think he iskilled if asked to rock his baby brother, but he will rock the hens in’ the next yard till his arms ache.—Boston Transeript.

—lJlowa has'a lake which has a serpent twenty-six feet. Jong. It will be seen by this that they ‘don’t get very, very drunk in ITowa.—=—Elmira -Firee Press.

—How time -changes! In the good old testament days it was considered a miracle for an ass to speak, and now nothing short of a miracle will keep one quiet.— Wheeling Leadér. - =

- —The average plowman isn't much. of an orator, but when hé takes the stump and gets yanked over into the next field he is a very forcible speaker — Steuben~ wlle Herald: - -o« & o 2

—George W. Childs is going to build a house costing $175,000." That is, he is going to get into a place where he can't take an hour’s ‘comfort, because. he can’t put his feet on the windowsills or mantles.—Detroit Free Press.

—A pig in Ohio, buried under the ruins of a fallen shed, once went without eating: for four raonths: This, of course, has nothing to do with Tanner’s, feast, though the pig also made a hog of himself after the fast.—New Orleans Preagupe.” . - oo - —THhe President;, we leain, has not yet ~dectded whether to appoint the ground-hog or the goose-bone as ¢ Old Probabilities’ ’. successor. - 1f the matter was submitted to a vote of the people the ground-hog. would carry the. country distriets in Pennsylvania, but all the old women in the West would vote solid for the goose-bone.-—Norris-toww Herald.=. = s o e

~—Ong old ' man from New York, who has been summering in New-Brunswick, . comes home with the proud record of” having taken 2,652.ti5h this season on his little hook -and line. We haven't had time to do a great deal of fishing this summer, but inthe few odd moments we had to spare we have caught just 2,653. A'word in your ear, my son; it ‘isn’t the way. you fish but the way you count that makesup your record.— Howlißye, - o= ae

The Legal Profession.

While almost every ‘class of business and almost every proféssion are profiting by thé general prosperity, we. hear so many complaints of continued stagnation in legal business from members of that profession that we are constrained to believe there is something in it. The lawyers increase with great regularity each year, but the business apparently does not; The Chicago Tribunc has been investigating "this matter in that city, and the report that it has to make from the rank and file of practicing lawers is that ‘* busifess is positively frightful with us nowadays. The lawyers are ‘having a hard time of it.. The factis there is no business for anybody in our profession, unless it is among some of the oldest ones. who may have some old .unfinished bus§iness on ‘hand.”” ' 'We ‘have heard similar complaints of the situation in this city, and it would ot take a. very searching canvass -to find as' discouraging views expressed, not by pettifoggers and dul- - lards,; but by as bright young men as there are in the city or State. In spite of capacity and enterprise, business has actually ‘declined among :the''mass of practicing lawyers and those who have had reputations to make and business to build up have -had a hard time of it indeed.. 'Of course- there is a certain fortunate percentage, quite small and select, that has all-the business it can do; but as a. -profession, the inducements to young men are not great. It would be diflicult to de¢ide in what profession competition. was most intense. ~But it is probable that the law suffers quite as much by overcrowding, | even when legal business is good, as: any other of the learned eallings. Country boys, especially when ambitious to leave the farms and the trades for more purely:brain work, most naturally grav--itate toward the law., In 'its external manifestations it appeals more strongly to them than medicine jor —,theolng,;and journalism is still ‘more vague. ®hey see the lawyer about town and he is the important man of the village. He is a leader in town politics, he makes speeches at local gatherings, 'he is a’ force in almost every town interest in which he becomes interested, and the boy takes in the ‘effect and says: ‘‘l will leave the farm as soon as possible, get an education and be alawyer.”” The city lad has the benefit of a .more instructive experience, and in the abserice of statistics we are inclined to believe that the . ranks:of the profession are swollen more proportionally from the country than from the ¢ity. The fact, however, seems to be that there. are more lawyers sthan can thrive in the business there .is to 'do. - One reason, and a. significant one, is that legal methods have become so intricate and justice from litigation so much amatter of speculation, that people are doing without lawyers more than they used to.’ “For this lawyers as law-makers are largely responsible, and they 'cannot hope for much relief until they do something to invite it . by’ meeting the public en more nearly common ground.“ißoston Fost- o i e

—MTr. Haverly, of the negro minstrel troupe now in London, was, not -many years ago, a-brakeman on u railway. Once, as the train was starting, an impecunious friend-begged a free passage, but his superior officer refused the favor, upon which yiounffr ‘Haverly declared thatif his friend couldn’t go,he wouldn't, and a person had to be found to fill his place. With a little ready m‘on‘ely_the ; two went into an operation ih-&Pfi es by. the single bushel, repeating it till' they had cleared sufficient to buy a passage to New York. Then Haverly began practicing with the ¢ bones,”” became - ‘¢ corner man,” *‘middle man,” ‘end man,’’ and now runs several troupes of his own:. - . Bre S L